Newsmaker of the Week

To say that Ronnie Silk was long overdue for a NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series victory is to say it right. On Saturday night at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida, Silk seized the moment late in the race to establish himself as the leader, then hold on with determination when Justin Bonsignore threatened to upset his victory bid. At one …

Promoter Brett Deyo’s racing empire is ever-widening. The creator of the Short Track Super Series who owns and operates Georgetown Speedway, and runs the races at Fonda and Utica-Rome Speedways in New York, has now taken over the promotion of Delaware International Speedway. Deyo, who recently signed with NASCAR to sanction racing at his three tracks, has brought the sanctioning …

Anthony Sesely’s weekend of triumph inside Atlantic City, NJ’s Boardwalk Hall included a big victory in the climactic Saturday night TQ Midget feature. In the process, Sesely became the first four-time winner of the NAPA Auto Parts Gambler’s Classic. In earning the 2023 Indoor Auto Racing Series Fueled By VP Race Fuels TQ Championship, it was Sesely’s rush from a tenth row starting …

The 2023 PPB Motorsports Show last weekend in Oaks, PA was the scene for the stunning announcement by Ricky Grosso that he has gained control of the operation of New Egypt Speedway. In so doing, Grosso will be returning to the track his family built 25 years ago and where his son Brandon won the 2022 Modified track championship. Grosso intends …

The 2023 Chili Bowl has been run. Six days of non-stop Midget racing produced a young Chili Bowl A Main winner in Logan Seavey, a popular winning car ownership team in Kevin Swindell and Tim Bertrand, a huge prelim win for upstart Hank Davis and the New England based Seymour Racing Team, and a drive from 23rd to ninth in the …

Anthony Sesely drove to victory Saturday night in the PPL Center Indoor Auto Racing Series TQ A Main, taking charge of a dramatic event that featured wheel to wheel action throughout. Sesely, who has been known for embracing a ‘clean-sheet-of-paper’ approach to race car design, teamed up with upstate New Yorkers Jeff Ulrich and Ricky Kluth a year ago to build a …

Wall Stadium’s 49th running of the Turkey Derby, a three-day annual extravaganza at the New Jersey Shore Speedway, produced some spirited racing and two late race winners in Matt Hirschman and Steven Reed. In the 150-lap Open Tour Modified race, Hirschman took advantage of late race opportunity to pit for fresh tires, knifed his way through the field and won …

John “Grandpa” Blewett, Sr, patriarch of the Blewett racing family, died Friday night at his home at the age of 90. He was a self-made man who built his life around the creation of an auto salvage yard that branched into many other facets. John became involved in auto racing with his namesake son in the early 1970s, adopting what …

Riverhead Raceway is a notoriously difficult place for outsiders to come in and beat the regulars. The weekly runners were out in force Saturday for the sixth annual running of the Islip 300, three-hundred wheel to wheel laps around a quarter mile track with no room to spare. The odds favored the locals but somebody forgot to tell Woburn, Mass. …

Brad Sweet’s drive to the 2022 World Of Outlaws Sprint Car season championship was his fourth straight and certainly his most closely contested. Though Sweet led the standings most of the year, his margin over rivals David Gravel and Carson Macedo ebbed and flowed. It was still very much Sweet’s title to win or lose over the three day Charlotte …